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Stars, Mind & Fate: Essays in Ancient and Mediaeval Cosmology
J. D. North
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hardcover. Num Pages: 458 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBG; HBLA; HBLC; PGK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 241 x 164 x 30. Weight in Grams: 824. Good clean copy with minor shelfwear. Lacking dj, remains very good
Published over a period of 20 years the essays collected together in this volume all relate to the lasting human preoccupation with cosmological matters and modern responses to them. The eclecticism of the typical medieval scholar might now seem astonishing, regrettable, amusing, or derisory, according to one's view of how rigid intellectual barriers should be. In Stars, Fate & Mind North argues that we will seriously misunderstand ancient and medieval thought if we are not prepared to share a willingness to look across such frontiers as those dividing astrology from ecclesiastical history, biblical chronology from astronomy, and ... Read more
Published over a period of 20 years the essays collected together in this volume all relate to the lasting human preoccupation with cosmological matters and modern responses to them. The eclecticism of the typical medieval scholar might now seem astonishing, regrettable, amusing, or derisory, according to one's view of how rigid intellectual barriers should be. In Stars, Fate & Mind North argues that we will seriously misunderstand ancient and medieval thought if we are not prepared to share a willingness to look across such frontiers as those dividing astrology from ecclesiastical history, biblical chronology from astronomy, and ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Hambledon Continuum
Condition
Used, Very Good
Number of Pages
442
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780907628941
SKU
KSG0034426
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About J. D. North
John North, Emeritus Professor of the History of Philosophy and the Exact Sciences, University of Groningen, and Fellow of the British Academy. He is the author of The Ambassadors' Secret: Holbein and the Worlds of the Renaissance and of Chaucer's Universe.
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